So I saw a thread about all the innovations that Sony has made to the industry, so I decided to make one about Nintendo

First D-Pad: Essential to gaming nowadays, almost all controllers have these (NES)

First Diamonds Button Layout: ALL controllers have these nowadays (SNES)

First Use of Shoulder Buttons: Very useful for FPS and other genres (SNES)

First True Motion Controller: Not the biggest fan of this but it is still a very large market, though now 7th gen is over motion controls are kinda dead (Wii)

First Analog Stick: Once again, this is literally ESSENTIAL to gaming, EVERY controller following the N64 was expected to have one (N64)

First Sidescrolling Game: Before SMB, games were usually just one screen, maybe changing screens, but never actually following you (Super Mario Bros)

First System with 3D capabilities without glasses: Similar to motion controls, this is just a little contribution they have made, however, it is still pretty great (Virtual Boy or 3DS, whichever you think is better :)

First Rumble Feature: N64 featured the first ever rumble feature in a controller, very helpful today and is included in all controllers (N64)

First Microphone and Touchscreen: Alot of controllers nowadays have microphones and the DS was looong before the iPhone, amazing for its time (DS)

I watched a video from 7thlevel, I don't know if you know about him or not, but he said that the Atari 5200 was the first console to have Analog Sticks. Super Mario Bros. was not the first Side-Scrolling Platformer, Pac-Land was in 1984 on the arcades. I watched a video from morefredmoore2 and he said that Shigeru Miyamoto got the inspiration for the Mario side scroller game from Pac-Land. Some of the things you forgot to list were that Nintendo was the first to have a Start and Select button on the NES. Nintendo also had the first trigger button (the Z button) on the N64. I don't want to argue, but as a Nintendo fan of over 20 years, I know that Nintendo did not make some of those innovations that you listed. Whatever you do, DON'T list stuff from a gaming magazine or a website. The people who write the stuff are mostly fanboys/fangirls and they usually spread lies. The best place to look at the innovations made by these companies is Wikipedia.

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Also you are true about Pac-Land but SMB was the first home console game to feature sidescrolling

As far as I know, they had the first rumble feature.

Correct me if I am wrong but wasn't Nintendo the first one to have a rumble thing on their controller with the n64?

Anyway, Nintendo did indeed "invent" many great things although, just like with everything these days, popularized is generally a better word than inventing

First great 4player Multiplayer FPS game (the Father of MULTIPLAYER FPS to this day) Goldeneye 007. Started the Console FPS craze.

First console to incorporate 4 player gaming as a standard w/o an add-on, the Nintendo 64....

Funny how both things are soo essential to the way most ppl game today....

It is a fact that Nintendo has done more to innovate gaming, either via their systems/controllers, or through games like SMB, Zelda, Metroid, Mario Kart, Mario 64, OoT, etc. etc., than any other single company in the history of the medium.

Of COURSE other companies have innovated and added as well. It's just that it's not even close, when you count up all the innovations "The Big N" has made over the decades.

It is different, but Atari did implement the analog stick before Nintendo, according to 7th. Nintendo perfected it with the N64. I read on Wikipedia that the Atari 5200 used a weak rubber boot for the analog stick. which was very unreliable and was the weak point of the Atari 5200. Nintendo used optical encoding disks, which were obviously better, since that made the stick movement very smooth.

The Atari 5200 had a joystick which was the standard of the time, and they were on their way out the door thanks to the NES D-Pad. The N64 analog stick was a very different thing, and it is what changed the industry in the 1990s.

Nintendo also brought saving games to console gaming, I do believe Legend of Zelda was the first game to do it.

The Gameboy established the handheld gaming console market. While portable gaming devices existed before, including Nintendo's own Game and Watch series from a decade earlier, the Gameboy model was the first true model for the portable gaming console category as we know it today.

Third Party publishing. The NES was te first console that allowed third party publishing. This became a standard business practice across all major gaming consoles afterwards.